Re: Instances of visor us devices are not deleted (2.6.9-rc4-mm1)

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Greg!

On Mit, 20 Okt 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> Hm, no it isn't.  Are you sure that userspace doesn't still have the
> device nodes open?  If they do, the ttyUSB number will not be released
> until that happens.

Ah, ok. So the culprit is gnome-pilot listening for HotSync events. 

I thought that as soon as the unit/usb device is disconnected, also the
device numbers are released.

But then: How to cope with problems like this? REcurring plugging and
unplugging and a program listening to this?

Is it possible to have
	/dev/pilot	->	/dev/ttyUSB1
and gnome-pilot opens /dev/pilot. Will then every new hot sync also
create other devices?

Best wishes

Norbert

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